Road To Tyranny

November 30, 2002

The Bush administration is selling war for peace and loss of privacy for security. In response to its inability to capture fewer than 1,000 al-Qaida hiding in the U.S., the Executive Branch is granting itself the right to strip constitutional rights. Caught in the undertow, our liberties are being swept away by new wire-tapping powers granted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and broad information data mining under the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness Program.

How do you think that other countries came to be controlled by dictators? It started with a little fear, mixed with a willingness to empower the one over the many.